Kossuth

Louis Kossuth reached New York on December 6, 1851, after the USS Mississippi carried him and about fifty followers from Smyrna, and Congress called him the guest of the nation. His tour through the South ran into slavery. He would not denounce it, abolitionists rejected his hands-off position, and William Lloyd Garrison published a pamphlet calling him a "self-seeking toady." Captain Karoly Laszlo, a member of his party, wrote against a slave auction he saw in New Orleans. Kossuth went back to London in July 1852 with a fraction of the money he had hoped to raise.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.6 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.7 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 0.8 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.8 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Lafayette Square — steps away
• Enrique Alférez — steps away
• Bank's Arcade — 0.2 mi
• Bienville's Plantation — 0.3 mi